Title: The Record Keepers
Year: 2006
Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen
Publisher: TriQuarterly
Issue: Issue 124, Intro, pp. 9-44
Description: Introductory essay to a group of papers presented at a conference based on the Chicago Historical Homicide Project database.
I would not be here, now, sweating in the August humidity of 2005 writing this, with an ink pen on a yellow legal pad, had l not tread on an otherwise ordinary sunny Wednesday morning in August of 1998, an account in the Chicago Tribune describing the restoration of an extraordinary set of books, a systematic record of homicide cases kept by the Chicago police, uniformly and without interruption over a period of sixty years, from 1870-1930…
In addition to the article, Leigh acted as Guest Editor for Issue 124, which included the following essays:
- Leigh Buchanan Bienen: The Record Keepers
- Catharine R. Stimpson: Do These Deaths Surpass Understanding?: The Literary Figure of the Mother Who Murders
- Carolyn Frazier and Dorothy Roberts: Victims and Villains in Murders by Abortion Cases From the Turn of Twentieth -Century Chicago
- Ilana Diamond Rovner: Law and Passion: Cases Involving People in Extreme Emotional States, and the Consequences
- Marianne Constable: Chicago Husband-Killing and the “New Unwritten Law”
- Jana Harris: The Laundress by the Lake, 1892
- Lan Cao: Laundrymen, Chinatown
- Deborah W. Denno: Death Bed
- Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain: The Literary Life of Clemency: Pardon Tales in the Contemporary United States
- Annelise Riles: Wigmore’s Shadow
- ArLynn Leiber Presser: The Ghost Light
- Regina M. Schwartz: The Price of Justice and Love in The Merchant of Venice
- David M. Thompson: The Transcendent Dimensions of Private Places: Personhood and the Law in Lawrence v. Texas and Angels in America
- Stephen Gillers: In the Pink Room
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